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Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
— Vladimir Lenin
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.
— Mikhail Tukhachevsky
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
— Robert K. Massie
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
— Vladimir Lenin
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. Lenin, "State and Revolution",
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
— Vladimir Lenin
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.
— Vladimir Lenin
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
— Vladimir Lenin
In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . "The
— John Le Carre
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
— Vladimir Lenin
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
— Vladimir Lenin
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
— Vladimir Lenin
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
— Vladimir Lenin
We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
— Vladimir Lenin
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
— Vladimir Lenin
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
— Vladimir Lenin
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
— Vladimir Lenin
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
— Vladimir Lenin
We are not shooting enough professors
— Vladimir Lenin
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
— Vladimir Lenin
It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.
— Vladimir Lenin
It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.
— Vladimir Lenin
Every cook must learn to rule the State.
— Vladimir Lenin
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
— Pyotr Kropotkin
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.
— Vladimir Lenin
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
— Vladimir Lenin
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
— Vladimir Lenin
Every society is three meals away from chaos
— Vladimir Lenin
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.
— Vladimir Lenin
You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw
— Vladimir Lenin
Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.
— Wyndham Lewis
If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
— Andrei Platonov
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
— Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism ... It is capitalism dying, not dead.
— Vladimir Lenin
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
— Vladimir Lenin
Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.
— Vladimir Lenin
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
— Vladimir Lenin
One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.
— Vladimir Lenin
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
— Vladimir Lenin
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
— Vladimir Lenin
And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
— Garet Garrett
History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.
— Vladimir Lenin
The departments are shit; decrees are shit.
— Vladimir Lenin
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
— Mikhail Bakunin
There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
— Vladimir Lenin
Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.
— Vladimir Lenin
Sometimes a scoundrel is useful to our party precisely because he is a scoundrel. V. I. Lenin
— Catherine Merridale
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.
— Steve Sailer
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
— Andrei Codrescu
Be as radical as Reality.
— Vladimir Lenin
The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
— Vladimir Lenin
Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.
— Vladimir Lenin
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
— Vladimir Lenin
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.
— Vladimir Lenin
I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead ...
— Mickey Spillane
The goal of Socialism is Communism.
— Vladimir Lenin
Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
— Vladimir Lenin
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
— Vladimir Lenin
Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
— Vladimir Lenin
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
— Vladimir Lenin
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
— Vladimir Lenin
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
— Vladimir Lenin
If it's not one god it's another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.
— Victor Robert Lee
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
— Vladimir Lenin
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
— Vladimir Lenin
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
— Vladimir Lenin
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
— Vladimir Lenin
There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
— Vladimir Lenin
Their souls were contagious ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
— Robert Harris
Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
— Orlando Figes
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
— Vladimir Lenin
I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
— Vladimir Lenin
The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.
— Vladimir Lenin
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.
— Ronald Reagan
This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important - if not the most important - phenomena of modern capitalist economy,
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
— Vladimir Lenin
